sp[A.C.E.] 2 | Cozette Kosary

sp[A.C.E]: Student's Personal Academic Collaboration Environments

Individual Thesis Project, 3 Week Time Frame, Spring 2012

sp[A.C.E.] is the design research behind how students' study habits have changed and how the library no longer facilitates the ideal study environment.

sp[A.C.E] offers tangible data on how students’ study habits transform into different collaborative forms and how study environments do not suite students’ studying needs.

Through User Experience Research, Alpha Beta Methods, Activity Theory, and Ethnographic Research, different study personas and modes are established proving that the archaic library no longer fulfills students’ studying needs.

sp[A.C.E.] offers the idea of a combined application and service, allowing students to use their study modes to generate the perfect study environment, as a possible solution to answer this problem. (Further research needs to be conducted on how the product looks and works.)

Project Overview

Phase 3:

Reflect on Wants & Needs

Methods:

Personas

Activity Theory

Alpha Beta Method

Need Clusters

Phase 1:

Define The Situation

Methods:

Literature Review

Defining The Problem

Key Terminology

Phase 2:

Observe and Research

Methods:

Walkthrough Analysis

Participatory Observation

Questionnaire Interviews

-Stakeholders

-Students

Design Problem

Add Text

Phase 4:

Conceptualize Experience

Methods:

Affinity Diagram

Conceptual Model

Real World Applications

Phase 3:

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Phase 4:

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